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1989 Sep 1 - 1990 Nov 30
Prime Ministerial Private Office files

PREM19/3741
European Policy (European Monetary System (EMS): economic and monetary union) (Part 5) [filed out of sequence]

Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2018 Jul 24
Classification: Secret
Page count: 434
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89 Oct 23 Mo Key European Policy: Turnbull note for MT (Alan Walters article/interview) [MT: "advisers ADVISE, Ministers DECIDE policy"] [declassified Jul 2018]
89 Oct 23 Mo Major European Policy: Turnbull minute for MT ("Alan Walters and EMS/EMU") [difficulty devising a line of reply to Opposition attacks] [declassified Jul 2018]
89 Oct 16 Mo Major European Policy: Powell telegram to No.10 (airborne) [ensure answers to any PMQs on EMS tomorrow stick strictly to Madrid conditions] [declassified Jul 2018]
89 Oct 19 Th Major European Policy: Turnbull minute for MT ("Sir Alan Walters's views on EMS") [Financial Times article based on earlier interview in which Walters describes EMS as "half-baked"] [declassified Jul 2018]
89 Sep 6 We Major European Policy: UKREP Brussels telegram to FCO ("Economic and Monetary Union") [conversation with Delors - support for Poland; would stick to Madrid conditions; would not circulate papers before ECOFIN at Antibes] [declassified Jul 2018]
89 Sep 9 Sa Major European Policy: Turnbull minute for MT ("Models of Economic and Monetary Union") [your discussion of this paper with Lawson was at cross purposes; drawbacks of a gold or commodity standard] [declassified Jul 2018]
89 Oct 24 Tu Major European Policy: Turnbull fax for Gray ("Sir Alan Walters and EMS/EMU") [MT interview raised the question] [declassified Jul 2018]
89 Oct 17 Tu Major European Policy: Treasury letter to No.10 ("EMU: Chancellor's paper for ECOFIN") [as circulated to other colleagues] [declassified Jul 2018]
89 Oct 31 Tu Major European Policy: Treasury letter to No.10 ("Economic and Monetary Union") [Chancellor's draft Commons speech; MT - 'excellent'] [declassified Jul 2018]
89 Nov 3 Fr Major European Policy: Treasury letter to No.10 ('EMU') [press reports on British participation in High Level Group; line to take] [declassified Jul 2018]
89 Nov 1 We Major European Policy: Sir Geoffrey Howe PS letter to Treasury ("Economic and Monetary Union") [Chancellor's draft Commons speech; could be construed as extending "into the distant future" our entry into ERM] [declassified Jul 2018]
89 Oct 20 Fr Major European Policy: No.10 Press Office (cuttings faxed to PM's team in Kuala Lumpur) [Lawson, Howe in Commons; Walters, EMS] [these copies declassified Jul 2018]
89 Oct 21 Sa Major European Policy: No.10 Press Office (cuttings faxed to PM's team in Kuala Lumpur) [Walters, EMS] [these copies declassified Jul 2018]
89 Oct 25 We Major European Policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Lawson-Hurd-Ridley) ['EMU' - Lawson paper for ECOFIN; purpose "primarily tactical", to slow down discussion of EMU and delay IGC] [declassified Jul 2018]
89 Oct 26 Th Major European Policy: Nick Ridley PS letter to Treasury ('EMU') [Ridley comments on Chancellor's draft paper] [declassified Jul 2018]
89 Oct 22 Su Major European Policy: No.10 Press Office (cuttings faxed to PM's team in Kuala Lumpur) [Sunday press on Lawson and Walters, EMS] [these copies declassified Jul 2018]
89 Nov 2 Th Major European Policy: Treasury letter to No.10 ("EMU debate: 2 November") [latest draft of Chancellor's Commons speech; CDP - "very good"] [declassified Jul 2018]
89 Oct 30 Mo Major European Policy: Treasury letter to No.10 ("Economic and Monetary Union") [Chancellor's paper for ECOFIN, in final form] [declassified Jul 2018]
89 Nov 3 Fr Major European Policy: Treasury letter to No.10 ("Article for the Sunday Correspondent") [Chancellor's article on EMU; MT - "Excellent, straightforward & direct"] [declassified Jul 2018]
89 Nov 3 Fr Major European Policy: UKREP Brussels telegram to FCO ("EMU and Social Charter") [conversation with Delors - preliminary response to Lawson's paper; failings of the French presidency; Social Charter; thoughts on handling of Strasbourg European Council] [declassified Jul 2018]